Biographies

I finally finished Mises: The Last Knight of Liberalism, by Jorg Guido Hulsmann. Reading the reports on Mises.org, I understand that with any work, there are criticisms to be had. I suppose I must joint he...

It appears that Garet Garrett's main economic influence in his early education is Simon Newcomb (1835-1909), who is described here is an early marginalist, an advocate of laissez-faire, and an opponent of institutionalism. His...

One of the many fascinating footnotes in Dr. Hulsmann's Mises - Last Knight of Liberalism is this entry: "The uniqueness of Mises's role was still recognized some twenty years later by one of the last surviving...

James Fenimore Cooper, America's first great national novelist, widely influenced our literature and Americans' sense of history in the 19th century. However, Cooper also wrote about political issues, particularly in The American Democrat (1838), whose themes reflect America's founders,...

He who has lived well knows how to die well. Death holds no horrors for him. It is simply the ultimate adventure of life. The death of Hans Sennholz on June 23, 2007, concluded a life of untold adventures. Born (February 3, 1922) in Germany during the hyperinflation soon after World War I, he...

It might be May Day in Cuba--the day on which Castro gives his traditional 4–5 hour speech, or so says NPR with exuberant expectation—but at the Mises Institute, it is Benjamin Anderson day. He was born on May 1, 1886. He was an outstanding economist...